Routledge Research in Art History
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art History is our home for the latest scholarship in the field of art history. The series publishes research monographs and edited collections, covering areas including art history, theory, and visual culture. These high-level books focus on art and artists from around the world and from a multitude of time periods. By making these studies available to the worldwide academic community, the series aims to promote quality art history research.
The Paragone in Nineteenth-Century Art
1st Edition
By Sarah J. Lippert
June 30, 2021
Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and cultural paradigms, to compete in the art world. The paragone has been considered ...
William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds: The Anatomist and the Fine Arts
1st Edition
By Helen McCormack
June 30, 2021
The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eighteenth century. Born at the family home in East Calderwood, he matriculated at the University of ...
Expanding Nationalisms at World's Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851-1915
1st Edition
Edited
By David Raizman, Ethan Robey
March 31, 2021
Expanding Nationalisms at World’s Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851–1915 introduces the subject of international exhibitions to art and design historians and a wider audience as a resource for understanding the broad and varied political meanings of design during a period of rapid ...
New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Mariola V. Alvarez, Ana M. Franco
March 31, 2021
This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm a sense of being modern and the right of Latin America to assume the leading role Europe had played before ...
The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Art of Travel
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabeth A. Fraser
March 31, 2021
For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôts of the Mediterranean, these go-betweens forged intercultural connections even as they negotiated and sometimes promoted cultural misunderstandings. ...
East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, Toshio Watanabe
December 18, 2020
This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic, temporal, and generic paradigms that currently frame the art history of East Asia. This pioneering study proposes an important new framework that ...
René Magritte and the Art of Thinking
1st Edition
By Lisa Lipinski
December 18, 2020
For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of our perception—what we see and cannot see, the nature of representation—as a philosophical system for presenting ideas, and explored perspective as a ...
Radical Marble: Architectural Innovation from Antiquity to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Nicholas Napoli, William Tronzo
September 30, 2020
Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed of pentelic marble, to Justinian’s Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Renaissance and Baroque ...
New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret R. Laster, Chelsea Bruner
July 07, 2020
Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York’s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted ...
Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Beáta Hock, Anu Allas
June 30, 2020
This edited collection reassesses East-Central European art by offering transnational perspectives on its regional or national histories, while also inserting the region into contemporary discussions of global issues. Both in popular imagination and, to some degree, scholarly literature, ...
The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture
1st Edition
By Catherine Holochwost
March 16, 2020
This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imagination’s potential for inviting luxury, vice, and corruption, American audiences avidly consumed a transatlantic visual culture of touring paintings, dioramas, gift books, ...
Place and Space in the Medieval World
1st Edition
Edited
By Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes, Heidi Stoner
February 26, 2020
This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material. The ...